On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:48:27 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'The 12th version of the FreeBSD has been released, bringing support for updated hardware. Some of the highlights include ...'
Ah, the joys of monolithic development. Unlike Linux distros, where all the userland apps are entirely separate projects from the kernel, the BSDs put everything together in one centralized source tree. Yup, I said “centralized”. Their idea of the state-of-the-art in version control is Subversion; they still view distributed version-control systems like Git with suspicion. This is why there are something like 3 BSD variants, and over 300 Linux distros. And why several of those Linux distros can do new major stable releases every 6 months, which none of the BSDs can.